Hi, everyone, I've just joined this group and am hoping it's still active. I've recently developed an interest in the Septuagint, by way of Hebrew and Greek...
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Peter Papoutsis
papoutsis1
Jul 2, 2012 11:44 pm
Personally, I would love a Reader's Version of the LXX. Peter A. Papoutsis ________________________________ From: abramkielsmeierjones...
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Ken Penner
pennerkm
Jul 3, 2012 10:31 am
You may also want to ask this question at the "Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha"; section of the Biblical Greek forum, at...
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Darrell Smith
sceptreofjudah
Jul 3, 2012 1:04 pm
Try the Perseus project. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=aleiyis&la=greek#lexicon  ! ________________________________ From: abramkielsmeierjones...
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Ken Penner via LinkedIn
pennerkm
Jul 4, 2012 10:35 am
LinkedIn ... Ken Penner has indicated you are a Friend ... I'd like to add you to my professional network. - Ken Penner Accept invitation from Ken Penner ...
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Abram Kielsmeier-Jones
abramkielsme...
Jul 5, 2012 6:54 pm
Hi, Peter, Ken, Darrell, and all, Thanks very much for the great links and the feedback--just when I thought I had seen what the Web had to offer on the LXX,...
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Peter Papoutsis
papoutsis1
Jul 5, 2012 9:11 pm
Hi Abram: Â I have a copy of the Apostolic Bible that is an Interlinear and I use that along with the Paralle Apocrypha from Oxford to get into deep LXX word...
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lxxmoderate@...
lxxmoderate
Jul 6, 2012 3:56 pm
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Joel Kalvesmaki
Kalvesmaki
Jul 22, 2012 10:01 pm
Dear Ken, It's taken a while, but I've gotten Moore's and Barach's versions into the LXX Finder: http://www.kalvesmaki.com/LXX/texts.htm If you publish your...
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Timothy Beach
tbeachglobal
Jul 30, 2012 4:28 am
Here are a couple of links that I stumbled across which I'm sending Bcc to whomever I think might have an interest in them ...
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abramkielsmeierjones
abramkielsme...
Jul 31, 2012 9:17 pm
The reading I'm doing is leading me to believe he did not (he spoke Aramaic, etc.). I began to think and write otherwise here <http://wp.me/p2muvc-5E> , but...
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Joe Dan Boyd
boloboyd
Jul 31, 2012 9:52 pm
Maybe this is either a naive or an obvious (or both) comment, but perhaps one conclusion is that Jesus used the original source from which the Septuaqint was...
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Reader Arsenios Georg...
maqhth
Aug 1, 2012 12:39 am
We can, one might imagine, safely conclude that He did NOT use the Masoretic Text... The LXX was in wide usage among the Jews, especially in the Diaspora, but...
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Ken Penner
pennerkm
Aug 1, 2012 12:55 am
Yes, the two questions are separate: (1) whether Jesus read the scriptures in Greek or Hebrew, and (2) whether the Gospel writers quoted from the Greek or...
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Robert Kraft
kraft@...
Aug 1, 2012 2:58 pm
Just a reminder on such questions. There was no "the LXX" in our sense of "Bible" -- and no "MT" -- in the first century. It was a scroll society, and while...
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Abram Kielsmeier-Jones
abramkielsme...
Aug 1, 2012 3:55 pm
Bob, Ken, and others: Thanks for the replies and clarifications. Â Duly noted about anachronisms. Â What I should have said/asked was something about Jesus...
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C L
sigebryht
Aug 1, 2012 6:29 pm
Dear Abram (et al.), As I read some of the preliminary responses to your question here, it seems helpful to distinguish between the text(s) Jesus used and the...
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Ken Penner
pennerkm
Aug 1, 2012 7:58 pm
I just want to correct one point from this otherwise helpful post. The Qumran LXX fragments are few and tiny: 7Q1, with Exodus 28:4-7, and 4Q119-122. Some of...
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Robert Kraft
kraft@...
Aug 1, 2012 10:19 pm
For a collection of the earliest preserved Greek fragments, with links to (some) images and (some) commentary, see ...
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Ken Penner
pennerkm
Aug 2, 2012 12:09 am
Bob, are you saying there are more Qumran LXX fragments than 7Q1 and 4Q119-122? I don’t see any at...
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Robert Kraft
kraft@...
Aug 2, 2012 1:07 am
I'm afraid I read your original message too quickly -- "I just want to correct one point from this otherwise helpful post. The Qumran LXX fragments are few and...
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Timothy Beach
tbeachglobal
Aug 2, 2012 2:42 am
By way of introduction, I signed on to this list a few months ago as a learner, not a scholar. Thanks you for bring up this topic which is particularly...
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Drew Longacre
drewlongacre
Aug 2, 2012 9:11 am
Chris gives a good summary of the issues. A couple of notes about the Qumran evidence are in order, however. Â 1) As mentioned before, the actual Greek...
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Ken Penner
pennerkm
Aug 2, 2012 9:46 am
On the Hebrew vs. Aramaic question, at a popular level, you could start with Doug Hamp's book, at http://www.douglashamp.com/discovering-the-language-of-jesus/...
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Sean Rhoades
rhoadess
Aug 2, 2012 2:40 pm
Hi Abram    I wonder what Jesus read from in the account of Luke 4.16-22? It might depend on what language Luke was more familiar with, and upon his...
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Ken Penner
pennerkm
Aug 2, 2012 3:50 pm
For a fuller bibliography on the use of Hebrew and Aramaic in the first century, see...
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C L
sigebryht
Aug 2, 2012 4:06 pm
Drs. Penner, Kraft, et al. Please let me say that it is an honor to interact with you on this forum. I admire your work very much, Dr. Kraft. Dr. Penner, I...
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Ken Penner
pennerkm
Aug 2, 2012 4:55 pm
You can read some of the Minor Prophets scroll at: http://books.google.ca/books?id=lLanEaS5u1IC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28 Remember that the percentage of Qumran...
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Danger
sigebryht
Aug 3, 2012 3:40 pm
Dear Dr. Penner, Thank you for that link. I was not aware that this book was in the Google library (seems to have been added since last I looked there). That's...
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Yeho natan
westcot@...
Aug 6, 2012 4:30 am
Hi LXX'ers! Various thoughts and comments regarding recent posts: "A)" is a helper in certain places below to know when I begin commenting. 1)...
